Figural Creativity, Personality, and Peer Nominations of Pre-Adolescents

Many studies have investigated the personality characteristics of mature creative adults, but little was known about the personality dimensions.of creative children. The lack of knowledge in the field of figural cireative thinking abilities and personality attributes of pre-adolesceÍ1ts led to the present study. Guilford (1967) indicated that scientists and writers depend on semantic creativity, while artists need visual-figural creativity. Although many studies have investigated the personality charac-teristics of mature creative scientists and writers (Cattell, 1963; Roe,